Brands
Pidge hires Arpit Bansal to sharpen brand and fuel growth
NEW DELHI: Pidge is tightening its brand engine. The technology-led logistics and fulfilment platform has appointed Arpit Bansal as head of marketing, signalling a sharper push on growth, trust and category leadership as it scales across India’s fast-moving last-mile economy.
Bansal will own the full marketing mandate — from brand strategy and category positioning to product communication and demand generation — at a moment when Pidge is expanding its technology stack, entering new categories and courting larger enterprise clients.
With more than 12 years of experience across fintech, mobility, digital payments and enterprise solutions, Bansal has held senior marketing roles at Escorts, Sterlite Power, Evalueserve and Paytm. His track record spans digital-first growth, large-scale integrated campaigns and building consumer trust in complex, high-stakes categories.
“Marketing at Pidge is about trust as much as growth”, said Ratnesh Verma, founder and ceo of Pidge. “As we scale our fulfilment network and deepen enterprise partnerships, full-funnel, long-term marketing becomes critical. Arpit brings strategic clarity, data-led thinking and a strong grasp of consumer behaviour — exactly what we need for the next phase”.
Bansal sees the opportunity as a chance to help shape the category. “Pidge is solving some of logistics’ hardest problems with technology, transparency and reliability”, he said. “This is a defining moment. My focus will be on building a distinctive brand, integrated marketing engines and narratives that make Pidge one of the most trusted names in Indian logistics”.
The appointment underlines Pidge’s ambition to move beyond scale to stature. As competition intensifies and expectations rise, the company is betting that brand credibility — backed by technology — will be its sharpest differentiator.
In India’s crowded logistics race, Pidge is not just delivering parcels. It is delivering a point of view — faster, smarter and with intent.
Brands
YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
